06-15-2020, 05:01 PM
(06-15-2020, 01:29 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: After watching the footage of the incident, he deployed the taser at the chasing officer, which resulted in the other officer firing the three shots. I honestly have zero problems with that.
No one should. It's almost like I described this exact problem with the current movement, conflating "good" shoots with "bad" ones and considering all of them "bad. I literally pointed this problem out last week and, unfortunately, was provided with an almost instant example.
(06-15-2020, 02:05 PM)bfine32 Wrote: He shot the guy because the guy shot at him. He was not shot for "fleeing". The evidence will help sort this out.
As I've said: Folks trying to associate this with the Floyd killing are most likely hurting the cause they are trying to help.
They don't see it that way because law enforcement is now considered the enemy by many people.
(06-15-2020, 02:12 PM)hollodero Wrote: I mean, I agree with that, and this person does rather qualify for the Darwin award then for poster boy against police brutality. The only thing I wonder is if it was indeed necessary to outright kill him. Though Biden caught much scrutiny and ridicule with that saying, I guess the "Biden approach" of wounding him would have worked in that instance.
I've stated this before, I suppose it bears repeating. You never, ever aim for anything other than center mass. Hitting a moving target, especially while you are also moving, is exceedingly difficult. Trying to hit an extremity while doing so is insane. You're almost certain to miss and the bullet while keep going, hitting something you don't want it to.
(06-15-2020, 02:28 PM)hollodero Wrote: OK, I guess that makes sense.
Just to clarify again, of course imho this guy had it coming 100% and I don't quite get how this is controversial even.
It's controversial because some people, and we've got a few who post here on the regular, don't like law enforcement and will use any chance they get to castigate them. They are part of an alarmingly high number of people, that is growing, that need the suspect to be blazing away with a machine gun before they'll, grudgingly, admit the LEO did the right thing in shooting the suspect.
